Instructional Leadership: Creating Practice from Theory with Dr. Peter DeWitt

Name: Instructional Leadership: Creating Practice from Theory with Dr. Peter DeWitt — Educational Data Talks
Start: 2020-09-10T09:00:00+1000
End: 2020-09-10T11:00:00+1000

Thursday, September 10, 2020
9:00 AM 11:00 AM 09:00 11:00

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Leaders are often told they need to be instructional leaders because this type of leadership is supported by research, and can have an enormous impact on student learning. Although instructional leadership is one of the most researched forms of leadership, very little practical insight into how to implement it exists, and many leaders struggle to put it into practice. Peter DeWitt, Ed.D. will take the research behind instructional leadership, and dive deeper into six areas that he found is crucial to practices that lead to instructional leadership.

That deeper dive involves breaking instructional leadership into six distinct parts, which are implementation, focus 4 learning, instructional strategies, student engagement, efficacy, and evaluation of impact. Leaders need to understand these six areas of instructional leadership, but also need to be provided with time to consider practical ways to implement each one, which also includes understanding implementation science. This session will help meet that need.

Session Outcomes

Participants will learn about the research supporting instructional leadership.

Participants will learn why credibility plays an important part in our ability to be instructional leaders.
Facilitators will engage participants in the six areas that make up instructional leadership which are implementation, collective efficacy, student engagement, instructional strategies, focus 4 learning and evaluation of impact.
Participants will learn about implementation science and the way it impacts their ability to
be instructional leaders.
Participants will be expected to engage in reflective practices to help them understand how instructional leadership plays a part in their roles in school by using a framework for learning which will be provided to them during the session.

Target Audience:

Building principal, district leaders, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, head teachers.

Tickets are limited to 30 so book now to avoid missing out!

Please note, this session begins at 9:00am AEST (Melbourne, Australian time).